Encyclopedia of sex and gender / Fedwa Malti-Douglas, editor-in-chief.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa.

Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Series:

Macmillan social science library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Encyclopedias.

Sex.

Sex--Social aspects.

Gender identity--Encyclopedias.

Gender identity.

Sex role.

Sexual ethics.

Sex--Cross-cultural studies.

Sexual health.

Gender Identity.

Sexual Behavior.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Cultural Characteristics.

Medical Subjects:

Gender Identity.

Sexual Behavior.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Cultural Characteristics.

Sex.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 volumes (lii, 1682)) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, [2007]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Vol. 1. Abortion, Legal and Political Issues

Abortion, Medical Issues

Abstinence

Adam and Eve

Adolescent Sexuality

Adultery

Advertising

Africa

Afrocentricism

Afterglow

AIDS and HIV

'A'isha 614-678

Alan of Lille c. 1128-1203

Allegory

Amazons

Anahita

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Androgyny

Animals, Sexual Symbolism of

Anorgasmic

Anthropology

Aphrodite

Aquinas, Thomas c. 1225-1274

Arabian Nights

Aristotle 384-322 BCE

Arousal

Art

Art, Drama/Performance

Artemis Diana

Artificial Insemination

Artists, Women

Asexuality

Athena

Automobiles

Avuncular

Backroom

Baha'i Faith

Baker, Joséphine 1906-1975

Baldwin, James 1924-1987

Barbie

Baths, Public

Beard

Beatrice 1265-1290

Beatrice of the Kongo 1686-1706

Beauty Pageants

Beauvoir, Simone de 1908-1986

Beguines

Behn, Aphra 1640-1689

Betty Boop

Bible, New Testament

Bible, Old Testament or Tanakh

Big Bad Wolf

Les Bijoux Indiscrets

Bingen, Hildegard of 1098-1179

Biology

Birth

Bisexuality

Black Arts Movement

Blaxploitation Films

Blood

Blues

Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375

Body, Depictions and Metaphors

Body Image

Body Modifications

Body, Theories of

Bogomils and Cathars

Bonaparte, Marie 1882-1962

Bondage and Discipline

Bosch, Hieronymus 1453-1516

Boswell, John 1947-1994

Boys, Construction of

Brain

Brantôme 1540-1614

Buddhism

Bugger, Buggery

Bulldagger

Bundling

Burchard of Worms 965-1025

Burlesque

Butch/Femme

Buttocks

Byzantium

Call Girl

Camille, Michael 1958-2002

Camp

Cancer, Breast

Cancer, Prostate

Cannibalism

Canon Law

Canon, Revising the

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 1571-1610

Carlini, Benedetta 1590-1661

Casanova, Giacomo 1725-1798

Castrati

Castration

Catalina de Erauso c. 1592-1650

Catherine the Great 1729-1796

Catholicism

Celestina

Celibacy

Cellini, Benvenuto 1500-1571

Censorship

Chastity

Chastity Belt

Chat Room

Chaucer, Geoffrey c. 1340-1400

Chicana Movement

Childcare

Childhood Sexuality

China

Christ

Christianity, Early and Medieval

Christianity, Reformation to Modern

Circuit Party

Circumcision, Male

Circus and Fair

Cleopatra 68 BCE-30 CE

Clitoris

Closets

Clothing

Codpiece

Coitus

Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 1873-1954

Colonialism

Comics Code

Comics/Comic Strips

Coming Out

Communism and Marxism

Computers

Concubinage

Conduct Books

Confucianism

Contraception

Coprophilia

Courtesans

Courtly Love

Creation Stories

Cruising.

Vol. 2. Daddy

Dahomey, Women Warriors/Wives of the King

Damian, Peter c. 1007-1072

Dance

Dandyism

Alighieri, Dante 1265-1321

Daoism (Taoism)

Date Rape Drugs

Dating

Daughter of the Nile Union

Daughters of Bilitis

Death

Demography

Desire, as Historical Category

Dietrich, Marlene 1901-1992

Dildo

Disability, Fetishization of

Disability, Sex and

Divine 1945-1988

Domestic Partnership

Domestic Violence

Domination

Don Juan

Drag Kings

Drag Queens

Dreams and Eroticism, Dream Books

Drugs, Recreational

Dulcinea

Dwarves and Giants

Dyke

Eating Disorders

Ecofeminism

Economics

Education

Effeminacy

Egypt, Pharaonic

Egyptian Feminist Union

Ejaculation

Elderly, Sex Among

Eleno 1546-?

Elizabeth I 1533-1603

Ellis, Henry Havelock 1859-1939

Employment Discrimination

Enlightenment

Erectile Tissue

Erection

Erogenous Zones

Eros, Cupid

Erotic/Adult Comics

Erotic Art

Erotic Photography

Erotic Transference

Eroticism, Urethral

Espionage

Esquire

Essentialism

Esther

Eunuchs

Exhibitionism

Fabliaux

Fairy Tales

Family

Family, Alternative

Family and Medical Leave Act

Family Planning

Fanny Hill

Fap

Farrokhzad, Forugh 1935-1967

Fascism

Fashion System

Fatherhood

Fatima c. 606-614-633

Female

Female Genital Mutilation

Feminism

Femme

Fertility

Film, Gender and Eroticism

Flirting

Folk Beliefs and Rituals

Folk Healers and Healing

Folklore

Food

Foot Binding

Fops

Foreplay

Fornication

Fotonovelas

Foucault, Michel 1926-1984

Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939

Friendships, Passionate

Frigidity

Frottage

Fundamentalism

Funerary Customs, Non-Western

Funerary Customs, Western

Furries

G.I. Joe

Galen 129-199

Ganymede

Garland, Judy 1922-1969

Gay

Gaze

Gender Confusion

Gender Dysphoria

Gender Identity

Gender Roles

Gender Stereotype

Gender Studies

Gender, Theories of

Genet, Jean 1910-1986

Genetics and Gender

Genitalia, as Apotropaic

Genitals, Female

Genitals, Male

Gentileschi, Artemisia 1593-1652

Gigolo

Girls, Construction of

Gnosticism

Goddess Worship

Goddesses, Earth

Goddesses, Mother

Gouges, Olympe de 1748-1793

Greco-Roman Art

G-Spot

Guilt

Gynaeceum

Lee, Gypsy Rose 1914-1970

Hair

Hall, Radclyffe 1880-1943

Harassment, Sexual

Harems

Harlem Renaissance

Hate Crimes

Heloise and Abelard

Hermaphrodite

Herrenfrage

Heterosexuality

Hierarchy

Hijrās

Himes, Chester 1909-1984

Hinduism

Hippocrates c. 460-370 BCE

History and Historiography, Modern

Hite Report

Hokhma

Homoaffectivity, Concept

Homoeroticism, Female/Male, Concept

Homophobia

Homosexuality, Contemporary

Homosexuality, Defined

Homosexuality in the Christian Church

Homosexuality, Male, History of

Honor and Shame

Honor Crimes

Hormones

Houri

Hustler

Hysterectomy

Ibsen, Henrik 1828-1906

Ide and Olive

Immaculate Conception

Impotency

Inanna-Ishtar

Incest

Infanticide

Infantile Sexuality

Infertility

Initiation

Inquisition, Spanish

Internet

Intersex

Intimacy

Iron, Gendered Symbolism

Isis

Islam

Israelite Society.

Vol. 3. Jainism

Japan

Jazz

Jeh

Jewish Tradition, Gender, and Women

Jewish Women's Leagues

Jinn

Joan of Arc c. 1412-1431

Joseph Story, The

Judaism

Judaism, Gender and Queering

Judith

Juvenal c. 55-127

Kahlo, Frida 1907-1954

Kali

Kama and the Kama Sutra

Kept

Khadija 565-619

King Henry III of France 1551-1589

Kinky

Kinsey, Alfred C. 1894-1956

Kiss, Pre-Modern

Kiss, Modern

Kollontai, Alexandra 1872-1952

Krafft-Ebing, Richard 1840-1902

Labor and Workforce in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981

Ladyboys (Kathoeys)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Macbeth

Language

Lawrence, D.H. 1885-1930

Le Roman de Silence

Legends and Myths

Lesbian, Contemporary

Lesbianism

Lesbian-Like

Lesbos

Lewinsky Affair

Liberace 1919-1987

Libido

Lilith

Literature

Little Red Riding Hood

Lolita

Lorde, Audre 1934-1992

Love-Devotional and Erotic

Love Poetry

Lubricant

Lust

Madwoman in the Attic

Magic

Maiden

Mail-Order Brides

Making Out

Male

Male Bonding

Malinche c. 1505-1550

Manichaeism

Manliness

Manly (Masculine) Woman

Mapplethorpe, Robert 1946-1989

Marbod of Rennes c. 1035-1123

Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

Marie Antoinette 1755-1793

Marriage

Marriage, Spiritual

Marriage Bed, Rituals of

Martyrdom

Mary Magdalene

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Masculinity

Masturbation

Matriarchy

Matrilineality

Maya

Media

Medicine, Ancient

Medusa

Melancholia and Sex

Ménage à Trois

Menarche, Cultural and Spiritual Meanings

Menarche, Physiology and Psychology

Menopause

Men's Movements

Men's Studies

Menstruation

Mermaid

Metrosexuals

Michelangelo 1475-1564

Middle Ages

Midwife

Mignons

Military

Miller, Henry 1891-1980

Miscegenation

Missionary Position

Mistress

Mithraism

Monasticism

Monogamy

Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962

Motherhood

Motorcycles and Motorcycle Cultures

Mucous Membranes

Music

Music, Women in Muslim Africa

Music Videos

Mysticism

Narcissism

Nationalism

Necrophilia

Nefandum

Nefertiti 1390 BCE-1360 BCE

Neuter

New Religions, Women's Roles in

Nin, Anaïs 1903-1977

Nomadism

Nose

Nude in Visual Arts

Nudist Camps

Nymphomania

Obscene

Oedipus, Myth of

Onanism

One-Child One-Family Policy

One-Sex Theory

Opera

Oracles

Oral Sex

Orgasm

Orgy

Other, Constructing the

Ovid 43 BCE-17 CE

Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975

Passing (Woman)

Patriarchy

Patrilineality

Pattini

Paul (Saint) 5 BCE-67 CE

Pederasty

Pedophilia

Peep Shows

Penance

Penetration

Penis

Penis Extenders

Penthouse

Performance Enhancers

Personals

Perversity, Polymorphous

Petting

Philosophy

Philosophy, Feminist

Phone Sex

Physical Culture

Piercings

Pilgrimages

Pin-Ups

Pizan, Christine de 1364-1430

Planned Parenthood

Plants, Sexual Symbolism of

Platt Lynes, George 1907-1955

Plato c. 427-347 BCE

Playboy

Pleasure

Political Satire

Politics

Porneia

Pornography

Possession

Prayer

Predator, Sexual

Pregnancy

Pre-Raphaelism/Symbolism

Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Priesthoods, Priests, and Priestesses

Prison, Detention, and Correctional Institutions

Privacy

Production Code (Hays Code)

Prostitution

Protestantism

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis

Puberty.

Vol. 4. Queen

Queen of Sheba, Myth of

Queens

Queens, Power and Sexuality

Queer

Queering, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Culture

Rabelais, François 1483-1553

Raffalovich, Marc-André 1864-1934

Rape

Rap Music

Reich, Wilhelm 1897-1957

Religion, Study of

Renaissance

Renault, Mary 1905-1983

Rent Boy

Reproduction (Procreation)

Reproductive Technologies

Rock and Roll

Romance of the Rose

Romeo and Juliet

Rosie the Riveter

Rough Music

Royalty

Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von 1836-1895

Sade, Marquis de 1740-1814

Sadism

Sadomasochism

Saints, Male and Female

Salome

Salsa

Same-Sex Love and Sex, Terminology

Sand, George 1804-1876

Sanger, Margaret 1879-1966

Sappho c. 625-570 BCE

Satisfaction

Satyriasis

Scatology

Scottsboro Case

Scouts, Boy and Girl

Seduction

Sex

Sex Aids

Sex and Empire

Sex Crimes

Sex Industry

Sex Manuals, Ancient World

Sex Manuals, China

Sex Manuals, India

Sex Manuals, Islam

Sex Manuals, Japan

Sex Manuals, Old and Modern West

Sex Museums

Sex Museums, Chinese

Sex, Race, and Power: An Intersectional Study

Sex Research

Sex Roles

Sex Shop

Sex Symbol

Sex Tourism

Sexology

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Education

Sexual Fantasy

Sexual Identity

Sexual Instinct

Sexual Inversion

Sexual Literacy

Sexual Objects

Sexual Orientation

Sexual Perversion

Sexual Practices

Sexual Revolution

Sexual Subcultures

Sexual Tension

Sexuality

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616

Shamanism

Sha'rawi, Huda 1879-1947

Shekhinah, God's Bride

Shepard, Matthew Wayne 1976-1998

Shintoism

Sikhism

Sin Contra Naturam

Slang, Sexual

Slavery

Snuff Films

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodomy

Sodomy Laws

Sodomy, Repression of

Song of Songs

Sophia

Space, Public and Private

Spinster

Sports

Star-Crossed Lovers

Stein, Gertrude and Alice B. Toklas 1874-1946 and 1877-1967

Sterilization

Stonewall

Story of O

Strange Fruit

Suffrage

Superheroes

Surrogates, Sexual

Susanna at Her Bath

Svengali

Swinging

Switchhitter

Symbolism

Syphilis

Tantra

Tattooing

Temptation of Saint Anthony (Image)

Terrorism

Third Sex

Throat

Tiamat

Till, Emmett Louis 1941-1955

Tiresias

Toilets, Public

Tomboy

Tongue

Top/Bottom

Toys

Trafficking of Women

Trannie Whore

Transgender

Transsexual F to M

Transsexual M to F

Transvestism

Tribadism, Historical

Tribadism, Modern

Trojan Women

Umoja

Uranians

Uterus

Vagina

Vampires

Vampirism

Van Gulik, Robert 1910-1967

Vargas, Alberto 1896-1982

Veiling

Venus

Venus de Milo

Verniolle, Arnaud de Fourteenth Century

Vestal Virgin

Vetula, Old Whore

Violence

Virginity

Voyeurism

War

Warhol, Andy 1928-1987

Watersports

Welfare

West, Mae 1893-1980

Wet Dream

Wet Nurses

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Whore

Widows and Widowers

Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900

Witch Trials, Europe

Witchcraft

Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797

Women Writers, Emergence

Women's Human Rights

Women's Studies

Wonder Woman

Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941

X (Rated)

Yin and Yang

YMCA/YWCA

Yoga

Yoni Worship

Zenobia Third Century

Zhang, Jingsheng 1888-1970

Zoroastrianism.

v. 1. A-C

v. 2. D-I

v. 3. J-P

v. 4. Q-Z ; index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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